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About a thousand years ago, the Rio Grande flowed between Second and Twelfth Streets.

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The Sandia Mountains encompass four different life zones.

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The edge of the east mesa is at Central Avenue and Yale Boulevard.

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Several hundred thousand years ago, the east and west mesas formed a broad plain through which the Rio Grande flowed about 250 feet or 24 meters higher than its present level.

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Special environmental topics worth exploring further.

Animal Control

by Jill Funk, updated by Joyce Rodarte

Animals and Plants

by Larry Caudill et al.

Archaeological Resources

by Jay Eberle, updated by Matthew Schmader

Arroyos

by Rex Funk

Art in Public Places

by Gordon Church

Climate and the Built Environment

by Anthony Della Flora

Cultural Diversity

by Geraldine Bitsie Loretto, with contributions by Yen Nguyen and Fannye Irving Gibbs

Open Space

by Carolyn Cleveland

Recreation

by Janet Saiers and Doris DeGregorio

Regionalism

by Dennis Foltz and Stephen Burstein

Safety

by Susan Kelly and Craig Rivera

Water

by Doug Earp, Jeanne Postlethwait and Jean Witherspoon, Revised June 2006